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If you’ve noticed a particular glow about Kathy Bates recently, it’s because the actress feels she’s in the best shape of her life.

The American Horror Story star reveals she has dropped around 60 pounds after adopting a healthier lifestyle, and it wasn’t achieved through crash dieting.

No instead, Kathy, 70, discovered a holy grail trick that inspires ‘mindfulness’ when it comes to dinner time.

Sharing her tips with Us Weekly, the Oscar-winning actress said: ‘Mindfulness, just knowing when to push my plate away.’

Oh, that easy?

Kathy has lost about 60 pounds and all it took was a little mindfulness (Picture: Getty Images)

No Misery here, Kathy feels like a new woman (Picture: Splash News)

‘My niece told me this little, secret, I guess it’s no secret, it’s a biological thing, that at some point when you’re eating, you have this involuntary sigh and that’s really your brain and your stomach communicating that you’ve had enough.’

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She adds: ‘The trick is to pay attention to that and push your plate away.

‘It took a few years. I would say you have to be really patient… I don’t like the word willpower, but I like the word determination.’

Kathy has successfully battled ovarian cancer after being diagnosed with the disease in 2003. Nine years later, the Misery actress was also diagnosed with breast cancer despite previously testing negative for the BRCA 1 & 2 gene.

The TV star chose to remove both breasts and is now in remission from the cancer.

Speaking honestly about her health, Kathy admitted: ‘I have never been in such good health. I just had a physical. I’m doing great… I feel like a completely different person. I can move, I can walk. I just wish I had done it years ago.’

No doubt Kathy’s busy work schedule has kept her fighting fit – the actress is still part of the AHS family, while also appearing in The Big Bang Theory, Disjointed, The Death and Life of John F Donovan and On the Basis of Sex in the past year alone.

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